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This is just my ramblings about negative people and the drain they cause on
others.

You have got to recognize this type person & NOT LET THEM INFLUENCE HOW YOU THINK

Anyone with a positive outlook can recognize the negative person right away.
“My glass is just half-full” as compared to “My glass is still half-full”

The negative people aren’t very happy about anything in life and enjoy trying
to drag people down into their way of thinking so they will have some company.

Misery loves company!

We have one such person in our daily coffee group I attend.

“Well the rain came too late to help any crops or do any good for anything
except to make the weeds grow”.

This person’s favorite is talking about a restaurant that opened here a few
years ago. “I won’t go eat there because the last time we were there, it took
over an hour to get our food and i don’t ever wait that long for food”.

Come to find out, he went there right at lunch time when they were busy
and it was only the 2nd day they had been open! So the restaurant wasn’t
prepared to handle that many people.

But he hasn’t been back there since and is always trash talking the place
saying they are super slow despite that being probably 3 years ago!

And I personally know they aren’t that slow now.

Never happy… Never satisfied.

Never their fault something happened.

Always says this or that didn’t work for them but when you get to the bottom
of the situation such as promoting a TE, you find out they put 1 URL in 1 TE
added 50 credits to it and forgot about it for a few months – then has the
nerve to say that TE ain’t worth messing with because they got no new referrals!

In one way, you gotta feel sorry for this type person BUT they are the only
ones that can change their unhappiness and attitude.

Always complaining about almost any website owner saying their site ain’t no
good when they might have never even joined the site much less tried to be
an active member!

This type person will never have a kind thing to say about anything.
They always want everything on your website without paying for it.

Constantly complaining the website and the owner never do anything for them.
“Why should I have to upgrade, all this should be free”
“I used to be able to get this for free”

I don’t have time for this crap when all they are actually doing is playing
games at Pogo!

Always think they should be given preferential treatment no matter where
they go:
“This is a bunch of crap – you don’t help me with anything”
This type person always seems mad at the world and everyone in it.

I’m sure you have run into the same type people in your life’s journey.
Just the smart people do their best to stay away from them and all the
negativity eluding from them.

A short synonym exercise ma be necessary in recognizing clay for this post.

Depending on the stage of building strategies, it is best to choose the right terms.

You presumably know more about your business, product, services offered, and your customer, than anybody else.

Most people tend to think they do, anyways, yet their marketing is no where near as effective as they would like it to be.

Who or what is the ‘clay’?

How do you refer to your members as … clients, customers, prospects, leads, hits … etc.?

Have you created member records for those people that choose to join you?

Who are you? Affiliate, business builder, entrepreneur, etc…?

What are their demographics? Other than the user name, email and possible profile information they are willing to share in their accounts, what else do you know about them?

If you have a poor understanding of who these people are, then how can you write to them in an effective way, so they want to follow your call to action?

This whole exercise is not about education. It is not about having a degree in data processing, or being a collection agency member, it is about using your smarts.

Your experience will give you more insights along with how you choose to get to know, like and trust the people you meet on the wide net. ************************************************

Guest post: Submitted by George Culp:

cPanel Security Risks

When is the last time you logged into your cpanel?

Hackers everywhere seem to be hell bent on causing frustration for all online users. Our server was no exception.

That is why you must now log in to your cPanel using a secure connection. Yes, this will require you to grant a security exception to logging into your cPanel this way but it for your own protection.

Just maybe you cannot access your cpanel? Woe be it for you not to be paying attention to Cogs and Logs posts relating to the latest server security enhancements.

If your website is hosted by ViralHost, your cPanel password did change.

Please submit a ViralHost support ticket to have your new password emailed to you. Make sure you specify an email address that is not on your domain so you can retrieve that information.

You will also be forced to create a new password once you access your cPanel with the new password we send to you. Just an extra security precaution to keep your data safe.

BEWARE

Your cPanel password should not be an easily identified set of characters such as birthdays. Make it something strong. We suggest you use the password generator provided in your cPanel to create a strong password that is not easily guessed by hackers.

It should be a combination of letters, numbers and special characters. Easy to remember passwords are dangerous and can cost you your web site!

You should also make it a habit to regularly change your cPanel password to keep your account safe from hackers.

When is the last time you checked your websites files and folders to make sure nothing is in there you don’t want?

If you see something strange – delete it! Then change your cPanel password right then – don’t put it off.

How about the passwords for your email accounts listed on your domain? They need to be changed on a regular basis as well. The same security precautions apply there as well as your cPanel password – don’t make it something easy for a hacker or spammer to guess.

When you access your email accounts listed in your cPanel via the web, you will also notice it is now a secure connection and will require you to grant a security exception to access.

This goes hand in hand with with normal security precautions on your personal computer; protecting yourself from viruses and Trojans.

Down times are the bane of companies. When it is least expected and when it seems to be unwarranted, it can cause a lot of hard feelings. That is when patience break and people move thinking it won’t happen somewhere else.

We live in troubled times and the net is no different. In point of fact, it seems the net is the wild west of hackers. They have to let you know just how smart they think they are and how easy it is to undermine your latest security checks.

It used to be teens that took the blame. Now country hackers from Russia, China, Malaysia and other world ports vie to head the list of most prominent hackers.

The reasons these hackers bother you or your hosting provider, are as varied as there are programs on the net to invade. Some levels are solely interested in bugging our Governments. Those are the ones that should concern us most.

The hacker players in programs, are a nuisance, costing lost income during downtime periods. Their better side is they teach you and I to be a lot smarter about the very security we use on our own computers.

When you get hacked your provider is shut down until the cause is found. When your email undergoes DDos attacks, your provider is shut down, blocked in fact, until your account is fixed. When your Traffic Exchange or program is infected with malware, your hosting provider is shut down.

We are, in terms of life on the net, our brother’s keeper. During our last surge of unexpected downline server times, we learned a lot about you. What you do and do not do to be safe online. We are here to support you and give you the help you need in order to continue doing business on the net. Once you know and understand your part in the full server service, it would bode all well for you to maintain top security measures in order to keep us all safe.

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Strategy- bold vision brand new ideas

September marketing strategies already employed at this time of the year, will help guarantee you have a profitable 2014.

During any 12month period, there is a need to create or update current strategies.
(ul)

Strategy number one works

Strategy number one creates xxx dollars

Strategy number ones slows down after xxx weeks.

(/ul)

Now is the time to introduce Strategy number two. It will go through the exact same stages as Strategy number one.

Understanding that each strategy has a shelf life whereby income is either produced or, if a list builder, the positive action slows down. Determining this period of inaction, when it begins, becomes the reason to pull it and replace it with the next strategy.

Over a period of 12 months, you can easily create Four new strategies, each with an ultimate value that leads towards accomplishing a particular goal. You should aim for six different strategies.

Once they are done, you can rotate them and bring in fresh responses. Work on updating the existing strategies so that they become evergreen.
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There you go, this issue. Security and income – two most necessary actions to produce a successful 2014 year. Are you ready to make it happen? You may not be in a position to save 2014, but you sure can put a dent in it. There is always next year IF you get started now.

For you thinking types, it serves you best to remember, it isn’t what the future holds, is will you be ready for it?
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Resources

1. ViralHost Scheduler – daily updates conferences and more
2. Cogs & Logs Calendar: – where you need to check for best surf promotions.Download and get your FREE checklist in order
Support and coaching
3. All our Traffic Exchange Blogs – read and post for positioning.
4. ViralHost Facebook Fan Page – LIKE us Share the News and post Position you in our growing community.
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Till next time …

Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top. ~~ Paul Coffey

It’s the little things left to grow to mountains of frustration that will get you in the end.Those two-minute jobbies left to another time that never seems to come round.

Like the latest traffic exchange or mailer you just joined. You will leave it to the mail to give you the details you did not take time to write down.

Warnng! Warning! Mail Delivery On Strike!

All those dire warnings about ISPs clamping down suddenly take on new meaning as that awaited mail never shows. Support has no idea. They sent it out. The system works from their end.

A clue –

Those form mails hold more spam trigger words than a good working sieve keeping clean veggies in. Sure the mail got out but your ISP says no way- not here! It won’t even make it to spam account.Remember you did make up a folder for it, and if you use good old g-mail, you told it never to send it to spam.

Hey Manual – You there?

No worry. We’ll do a manual verification. Such relief huh? Rather short lived though as time-after-time you get frozen out from trying to use your recalled log-in information that just won’t work.

Three changes of the password, and emails to and from support and you are still not in. (I’ve seen some of the most centered people totally lose it by now.)

Pick up the phone!

It shouldn’t take more than an hour of close up connection to realize the issue is not your login information but the new script no longer uses email plus password logins. NOW it requires that missing mail information that says congratulations your new login info is this number and the password- the one you wrote down when you created your account. Be advised that no one will ever know your password from our end.

Oh well, like we said, no one is a natural. Experience teaches us to change the bad habit and hopefully replace it with the new. Like taking the time to write down all information you wish to use when you choose a join up. ******************************Resources:

1. ViralHost Scheduler – daily updates conferences and more2. Cogs & Logs Calendar: – where you need to check for best surf promotions. Download and get your FREE checklist in order plus Support and coaching 3. All our Traffic Exchange Blogs – SEE Below – read and post for positioning.4. ViralHost Facebook Fan Page – LIKE us Share the News and post Position you in our growing community. **************************Till next time …

They could be coming in from all over. Someone is after a ton of them. They will be redirected to our Traffic Exchanges, will you be ready to promote to them?

Not so sure you will be. I haven’t seen you surfing in a while,

why not?

Seen some mighty fine pages out there. Got me wondering, if credits used up, how will you keep those pages viewed? Will the day they did not see your page, be the day, they would have signed up? Probably so. Right on the day you ran out or forgot to assign those needed credits.

What are your hard earned credits doing for you now? Do you even know?

21stCenturySurf is continuing to maintain growth patterns. Thanks to all of you who both surf it and promote it. No wonder I see your downlines growing! Congratulations on good marketing!

If you are reading this and you do not belong, check with your sponsor, see if they do. If not then join 21stCenturySurfright here, right now.

It goes to a lead capture page. Why? Marketing 101. Get your new people signed up to your auto-responder. To what? Sell them? If you want to lose them, go for it! Your first set of emails should be designed for them to get to know you; how to access important parts of their account; some tips and tricks to get them started fast and building their own downline subscribers who are also responsive.

If you are not using a lead capture page, or squeeze page, as some call them, or even a landing page – then connect and find out how to get one.

There is a staff lady called Sharon Ticknor. She is sharp, creative and a positive influence on new members in need of how to set up good responsive pages – pages that can also be viewed on ipads and other mobile devices. You can find her via support, on yahoo messenger, on skype and in FaceBook. You really do want this lady on your must have resource list!

What you have been reading so far, is a strategy you could, should, would be using if you have a well planned logical marketing strategy in place that will allow you to leverage your work.

If those 500 guaranteed members pan out, will you be in a position to take full advantage of them? Oh, almost forgot. They WILL be redirected to 21stCenturySurf First.

See you on line. To your success.

Your editor …

Fran Klasinski-warriorlady
Mentoring you with common sense
Marketing With Finesse

In the land of you, me, us and them, came the over use of getting down and personal in our web pages and emails. As a result, spam triggers were born and email delivery became a nightmare of poor results.

The one change in it all is truncated mails that deliver a PDF to your computer to read at your leisure. But even those short solo advisories with the download link, can end up in the spam folders.

“I attended school in order to learn how to earn a living that
would allow me to build a good business.”

Right there, that sentence means my mail will be found in the
spam/junk folder.

“One thing you learn in a hurry is that free isn’t the best way
to do business.”

This sentence would cause an email to be eaten alive by spam
spiders.

You do not have to be a grammar specialist to survive; it
means you need to understand spam laws of 2009 for starters,
and improve your vocabulary to help you find the right synonyms
for avoiding spam trigger words.

Oh and that sentence would really sink your email. Know why?
We will be covering spam triggers and how to work around them
over the next few months in our Thursday AD creation sessions.

If you need help, then that is where you need to be Thursday
nights at 9pm EST for the smartest hour you will ever spend
online.

This post contains FOUR Trivial triggers, FOUR medium and
ONE critical trigger word along with other LOW triggers.
If you know what they are, then come with your answers
Thursday night and get yourself some surf awards packages.

Ready to put the fun back in marketing? We are. All we need
is you to laugh along with us.

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“Taking care of business (every day)
Taking care of business (every way)
I’ve been taking care of business (it’s all mine)
Taking care of business and working overtime”

It’s a darned good place for all of us to make a concerted start on how to turn our business dealings from failing to getting back on track fully prepared for summer sales.

The key to step one is TRAFFIC! Not just any traffic either. When
we first start out, there is a lot of apparent choices but not having
an understanding of where we are or what we really want to be
doing on line, we can mess it up big time!

What is your dream?

What are your plans for being online? When you join a company
you become an arm of it. Someone who will promote it and
spend time learning how to get the best it has to offer you.

By applying to any of our ViralHost programs, you are in a very
good place. There is no need to carry an inventory or handle
delivery of products. The products are all tools that come with
your hosting packages. NO charge!

Or if you are into our Traffic Exchanges for leads and conversions
then that is cool too. Right off the bat you have a full armory of
tools to help you get started.

Getting Started

You need a very good computer. The lifespan of a computer is
based on the programs you wish to use. As of May, most of the
computers that will handle the majority of programs will be
housed on 64bit motherboards.

If you check your computer, you may find it is 32bit. If you
use a Mac or a Linux program, then it may not matter. It is
Microsoft that is creating the angst among their market by
refusing to update XPpro security.

Your computer, complete with at least 2 gig ram and a very
good hard drive , are your number one tool. If you are on
some legacy machine, plan on running into a lot of issues
from staying connected to the web to slow surfing, to not
being able to access chat rooms or conference rooms .

There will always be a need to invest in your new affiliate
business. The myth is you can earn huge amounts of money with
little or no effort. Good luck with that false promise. [NB** The
FTC is rearing its head again to look at law-breaking marketers.]

Building a business requires the normal business principles such
as a budget, keeping good records, and a business plan of where
you want to go.

Now it is your turn. Ready to take on some of these ideas and get
yourself on track?

Traffic tip of the Year

SAVE surf time! Work on getting referrals. How do you get them?
Focus on the products and services WITH people not to people.
You will find a focused group of tools within ViralHost to help
you do that..

Get ready to investigate! It’s your life, your business. Just
get it done!

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Your Business Blogs you need to readSEE The Blogroll on the side.

Places to learn, earn and share

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Well another marketing week has bit the dust and where are you in your marketing? I ask that all the time, I know.

But hey life gets in the road and frustration can too often be our partner in attempt.

Ask me! This week has been disaster for me. FRIDAY and I am in a marketing 101 session with a very experienced person who knows better.

Here is the issue. While I was growing up, my parents ran what is now referred to as a mom & pops variety store. Ours was groceries and gas and of course candy for us little mouses with big eyes.

The first lesson was everybody is a customer. They are
always right even when they are 100% wrong. Hard lesson
for a kid but if you wanted to eat, you learned it.

Second lesson was there are friends and there are customers. When it comes to business, they are all
customers, the two must be kept separated.

We learn that in marketing. The 250 rule? Bug the people
you know in your circle to join you but leave your friends
and family out of it. They really will walk down the other
side of the street when they see you coming if you don’t.

Treat the people you meet on line as good customers andrespect that relationship. Some will become your good
friend and that is fine but you never use that friendship to
push a product or opportunity at their expense. IF they are
interested they will ask you.

You will be talking and sharing online experiences and thus
the natural flow will encourage their participation. It is a
simple lesson forgotten when dealing with target markets,
in forums or groups, wherever people meet.

Those markets are not bulls eyes but some people sure do
believe in drawing the gun and shooting them full bore with
everything but what they need.

The secret to building relationships and lists of caring
subscribers is back up there a bit for those that caught on.

What about this offer?

A stranger approaches you and asks you to take two $100 bills and give them out within the hour to two very deserving people you meet in that time frame.

What would you do?

Some people would run from that offer because it comes
from a stranger. Others might take the two $100 bills and
begin seriously observing people within their sight for those
two worthy people. What if by doing this act, the return was
200 times better?

Who would ask, what’s in for me to do that? Are those
altruistic people? Someone with moral judgement always at
the forefront? Someone who might question are the $100
bills real?

Who would do it with no thought of what was in it for
them?

The above is the offers you read every day. The offer of
making something or doing something that compels you to
act for or against the offer. You are unique in how you view
these offers. The market that will respond favorably may or
may not include you.

Your answers to the above might give you a better insight
as to how you market to the masses and what it is you are
really looking for. Better yet, how to approach the market
you do want to engage?

Have a super successful weekend. See you Sunday night at
the regular conference?

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Insight #1
NO BO has nothing to do with deodorant though it might better if you are one of those people who do not check in now and then to make sure your marketing is always fresh and on the mark.

Insight #2

BO stands for Back Office! Plain and simple. That place
that holds your referral information, login, tools to use
for easier marketing and keeps you up to date on contests
standings and surf results.

Insight #3

Marketing BEFORE Surfing
It only takes a few minutes.That few minutes can earn you
80% of your daily intentions. It really can make the bigger
difference.

Sign in – Vote – two seconds. Read the Newsletter – it has
the latest contests coming up and the winners from the ones
just passed. It is updated daily. Won a contest prize?

Check it out!

What is the contest today?

Marketing steps:
1. Mail downline a heads up reminder.

2. Check your contest standings both surf and referrals.
EVERY month someone could have won that free yearly upgrade
if only they did this and found out they qualify with
referrals but no surfing standing.

3. Surf to match your needs – ie just credits or do you
need to convert credits to banner and text impressions
so you can increase your reach for conversion ratios?

4. Increase your referral activities. Place or test
different promo pages in different TEs in order tobuild strong downlines in 21stCenturysurf.

5. Make a list of the TES you are using to advertise
and will also need to surf today.

Insight #4

The above action steps are considered a guideline or
checklist of actions necessary to be organized and
make the difference.

It’s called actions and surfing with focus.

Hope you have a super successful day. That you take a new
look at your BO and share what you find there with a comment
or two here in the blog. Take advantage and test the insights
and see if your actions have made a big difference.

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If you buy the theory that Less IS More, then why are you determined to buy up every offer in sight?

Having read so many ritualistic gurus bragging almost that part of their learning cycle was to buy a copy of everything that came out.

The cry being, how can you sell what you do not understand?

Probably made a lot of gurus happy with their
sales. These top guru sellers probably were
responsible for the largest spike in human
history,causing nervous breakdowns galore,
difficulty sleeping and overwhelm.

Perhaps you should look at those purchases
like starting a new job for each one. So buy
two a week and you are going over the edge
trying to learn and implement two new jobs
weekly.

So are you rich yet? Got good health insurance?
Kick the habit and settle in with the one
company that can help you learn all the ca$h
skills you need in ONE spot with ONE company
time proven and successful, how to save your
nerves and fill your pocket book.

Which company is that you ask? ViralHost is the
name and business building is the game that
pays YOU for your time with SIX different parts
each earn commissions and each yours for getting
off the merry-go-round.

Wouldn’t it be nice to plan a trip to that haunt
you have been dreaming about? Or you could
keep on keeping on and book a six-week retreat
in a psych ward getting over a nervous breakdown.
The choice is yours.

Now get on over and do some worthy surfing to
get your actions back on track Do you good to
give a little. I hear those that do get a lot
back.

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The hosting company providing all the right business tools.
Including building your website as a hosted member.
Safe, secure, budget conscious. We’ve got your back!